Re: Okay, how does this work...

At 3:41 AM -0700 8/4/01, Nick Dingle wrote:
> >Does this mean I need to buy some new sand paper and
>a mask (lead and
> >lungs - not compatible)?
>
>Dare I ask how uncompatible?  I drilled out a hole in
>the bottom of a Foch SDN yesterday to take a brass
>pole stand, and when I finished realised I'd forgotten
>to put my mask on . . . been a bit worried ever since.
>
>Sorry if this is posted more than once, I am having a
>little trouble with Netscape at the moment.

On the grand scheme of thing, if you are drilling at low rpm and 
aren't really creating lots of small particles, you're more likely to 
get lead poisoning through skin to mouth contact than anything else. 
Elemental lead isn't very readily absorbed through the skin. Lead 
salts yes, but you don't really encounter those much with miniatures.

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